زمهریر

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• زمهری (zemheri) — colloquial

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَمْهَرِير‎ (zamharīr).

Noun

زمهریر • (zemherir)

1. intense cold; the depths of winter

Descendants

• Turkish: zemheri, zemperi (Trabzon)
  • → Laz: ზემფერი (zemperi)
• → Georgian: ზემჰერი (zemheri) — Chveneburi
• → Serbo-Croatian: zemhèrije／земхѐрије, zemèrija／земѐрија, zemeríje／земери́је

References

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “zemherir”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1278a
• Kowalski, Tadeusz (1930) “Zu den türkischen Monatsnamen”, in Archív Orientalni‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, pages 16–17